Gentoo Linux was one of the last few Linux distributions continuing to maintain Itanium (IA-64) architecture builds but that is now being phased out for those discontinued Intel processors.

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    18·
    3 months ago

    How many IA-64 machines are still running at all? I never knew they even made that many in the first place!

    • nyan
      7·
      3 months ago

      Actually, if you check deep down in the list of installables, you’ll find that Gentoo still supports the even less capable i486 variant. A laptop from 2010 is positively a spring chicken compared to some of the things it can be made to run on. Itanium is only being desupported because it’s being dropped upstream by the kernel and other chunks of the toolchain (and the only actual hardware they had to test on died a while ago).

      • picofarad@noauthority.social
        1·
        3 months ago

        @nyan Yeah, i know of the extremely long support, i’ve put gentoo on a half dozen different architecture CPUs, usually well outside the “service life”

        spring chicken :-D